Legalization keeps rolling along

2013 November 7

by Rick Holmes

Opponents raised a stink about posters like the one above on the city buses in Portland, Maine, but the First Amendment won. So did Question 1, which Portland voters approved Tuesday with 67 percent of voters casting “yes” ballots.

The campaign’s pitch – marijuana is better than beer – is likely to be repeated in campaigns to come. Liquor companies won’t be pleased, and I’m guessing will start funneling money to opposition groups.

And there will be more campaigns to come. The Maine folks will push for statewide legalization, and Massachusetts drug reformers announced today they will put legalization on the ballot in 2016. Why not 2014? I’m told the handful of millionaires who provide funding (George Soros, Progressive Insurance founder Peter Lewis, etc.) think the chances of success are greater with a presidential race on the ballot.

And the government had a new form of prohibition at hand–trans fats. Trans fats may be bad for you, but trans fats often show up in non dairy kosher products as well as other specialty food I buy. Trans fats mag be unhealthy but it’s my choice. So who the hell is the government to ban it? Ironic that as marijuana becomes ok, w’s have a new black market product

Mazel toke! A prominent orthodox Israeli rabbi has ruled that medical marijuana is kosher, if genuinely prescribed for the relief of pain or other maladies. Rabbi Efraim Zalmanovich is still a foe of recreational drug use, and warns that anyone smoking fat spliffs to “escape this world” is breaking religious law. The news will be a mitzvah to the observant Jews among the 11,000 who legally consume medical weed in Israel, some of whom agonized over its compatibility with the Jewish faith.

I’m sure that your doctor would be able to give you the recommendation for medical marijuana. After that, you can make an appointment with CannaMed to get your medical marijuana certificate so you can legally have it so you can use it as your doctor prescribe.

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